Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communism, and those who condone McCarthy are throwing that asset away. As the New York Times put the case: "He has been of no use whatever in enabling us to distinguish among sinners, fools and patriots, except in the purely negative sense that many of us have begun to suspect that there must be some good, however small, in anybody who has aroused Senator McCarthy...
...would suspect that Buckley considers himself the Ober of Yale University. Mr. Ober, a graduate of the Harvard Law School, has drafted laws to cope with Communist influences in Maryland. "Liberals," Buckley says, decided that "Ober was on the wrong side. He was treated not as an alumnus offering a tenable policy change for Harvard, but as a recalcitrant Main Streeter who didn't understand academic freedom." Mr. Ober, like Mr. McCarthy, has stirred up a lot of adverse controversy and investigation. Buckley, although his writing may be flamboyant and his facts not entirely correct, will probably join their ranks...
...difficult and fine distinctions drawn between Oxford and Cambridge by Norman St. John-Stevas [TIME, Sept. 24] are for the most part accurate . . . However, I suspect that the good Cantabrigoxonian had little to do with English letters or natural science while rusticating or ruminating at either place, for he would not have said that Oxford has the edge in poetry, nor would he have failed to recognize the distinction of Cambridge in the field of science. Can Oxford possibly match Spenser, Marlowe, Milton, Dryden, Wordsworth, Byron, Coleridge . . . or Bacon, Harvey, Darwin...
Police still have no murder suspect...
From what they have read so far, glaciologists suspect that since the last major ice age the earth's climate grew gradually warmer until about 5,000 B.C. Then the cold came again, and the glaciers reached a secondary peak about the time of Christ. Again the climate grew warm, allowing Scandinavians to live happily in Greenland. Then came another cold period and the Greenland Norse disappeared...